Friday Funnies: NPR : The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld, Set to Music

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Chart topping Donald Rumsfeld and his
poetry

Chart topping Donald Rumsfeld and his
poetry 05/12/2004 05:18 PM

Proving that culture can be remixed in almost real-time, a group from San Francisco has created an album of piano and opera versions of US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's statements to the press. They offer sound samples and the lyrics pulled from press briefings on their site, and are currently on tour. Rumsfeld himself has heard the songs and jokingly decried the state of music, now that he is the subject of songs. [via]

Friday Funnies

Friday Funnies 01/23/2004 02:19 PM

Friday Funnies...

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Friday Funnies..... Thanks: ladytabitha

Friday Funnies..... Thanks: ladytabitha 02/13/2004 12:48 AM
via: http://www.livejournal.com/users/ladytabitha/983811.html

Friday Funnies: Linux Switch

Friday Funnies: Linux Switch 03/06/2004 02:05 AM
http://webfarmhosting.com/switchlinux3.swf

"Vice President Dick Cheney Rushed To
The Aid Of Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld -- Under Fire Over Iraqi Prison
Abuses -- By Saying People Should "Get
Off His Case" And Let Rumsfeld Do His
Job (Tell 'Em Dick)"

"Vice President Dick Cheney Rushed To
The Aid Of Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld -- Under Fire Over Iraqi Prison
Abuses -- By Saying People Should "Get
Off His Case" And Let Rumsfeld Do His
Job (Tell 'Em Dick)" 05/10/2004 02:59 PM

":: Donald Rumsfeld Must Resign ::"

":: Donald Rumsfeld Must Resign ::" 05/10/2004 10:08 AM

:: Donald Rumsfeld Must Resign ::

:: Donald Rumsfeld Must Resign :: 05/10/2004 07:14 PM
John Kerry's Petition for Rumsfeld's Resignation 5/10 .. Donald Rumsfeld Must Resign Petition .. lead the charge

johnkerry.com/petition/rumsfeld.php
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Pentagon Deleted Rumsfeld Comment---The
Pentagon deleted from a public
transcript a statement Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld made to author Bob
Woodward suggesting that the
administration gave Saudi Arabia a
two-month heads-up that President Bush h

Pentagon Deleted Rumsfeld Comment---The
Pentagon deleted from a public
transcript a statement Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld made to author Bob
Woodward suggesting that the
administration gave Saudi Arabia a
two-month heads-up that President Bush h 04/22/2004 05:17 AM

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28729-2004Apr20.html
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Donald Rumsfeld: Mangler at Large

Donald Rumsfeld: Mangler at Large 12/03/2003 06:17 PM
The Plain English Campaign, an British organization that strives to have public information delivered in straightforward English, has given this year's "Foot in Mouth" award to none other than U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

he called on Bush to fire Donald
Rumsfeld

he called on Bush to fire Donald
Rumsfeld 05/07/2004 12:35 AM
are calling for his head .. Tom Friedman is worried .. Friedman way wrong .. what's at stake .. hate

nytimes.com/2004/05/06/opinion/06FRIE.html
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"Donald Rumsfeld has won the 2003 Foot
in Mouth award"

"Donald Rumsfeld has won the 2003 Foot
in Mouth award" 12/02/2003 09:59 AM

"Seymour Hersh's latest accusation
against Donald Rumsfeld"

"Seymour Hersh's latest accusation
against Donald Rumsfeld" 05/17/2004 02:58 AM

cmo el secretario de Defensa, Donald
Rumsfeld, anunci al presidente Bush el
hallazgo de Sadam

cmo el secretario de Defensa, Donald
Rumsfeld, anunci al presidente Bush el
hallazgo de Sadam 12/16/2003 08:57 AM
For 14 Long Hours, Keeping the Secret (washingtonpost.com) .. at Don Rumsfeld's house .. supreme media whore

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A98-2003Dec14.html
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last November Donald Rumsfeld ordered an
Iraqi detainee hidden, unaccounted for,
within the prison system

last November Donald Rumsfeld ordered an
Iraqi detainee hidden, unaccounted for,
within the prison system 06/17/2004 10:55 PM
NY Times .. reports .. in

nytimes.com/2004/06/17/politics/17abuse.html
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A federal appeals court on Friday
rejected efforts by the recording
industry to compel the nation's Internet
providers to turn over names of
subscribers suspected of illegally
swapping music online

A federal appeals court on Friday
rejected efforts by the recording
industry to compel the nation's Internet
providers to turn over names of
subscribers suspected of illegally
swapping music online 12/20/2003 06:23 AM
Record Industry May Not Subpoena Providers .. rejects

apnews.myway.com/article/20031219/D7VHI7400.html
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Daily funnies as RSS

Daily funnies as RSS 11/17/2003 05:46 AM
Now this is a fantastic idea: daily comic-strips syndicated as RSS feeds -- who needs a separate "comics reader" when an RSS aggregator can suck in anything that can be represented as a syndicated feed?

Adam@Home by Brian Basset http://dwlt.net/tapestry/adam.rdf 2003-08-03

B.C. by Johnny Hart http://dwlt.net/tapestry/bc.rdf 2003-08-25

Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce http://dwlt.net/tapestry/bignate.rdf 2003-08-11

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson http://dwlt.net/tapestry/ch.rdf 2003-06-09

Dilbert by Scott Adams http://dwlt.net/tapestry/dilbert.rdf 2003-06-06

Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau http://dwlt.net/tapestry/doonesbury.rdf 2003-06-13

Drabble by Kevin Fagan http://dwlt.net/tapestry/drabble.rdf 2003-08-11

For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston http://dwlt.net/tapestry/fbofw.rdf 2003-08-03

Link (via Ben Hammersley)

More Patent Funnies

More Patent Funnies 02/01/2005 09:44 PM
Perhaps just now it’s unfashionable to grumble about patents, given that Sun and IBM are showering the world with bucketfuls of ’em (and a fine thing, too), but if you want a loud, ugly, wake-up call, start at VarChars, which is offered by someone who apparently wishes to be known only as “rayg”. Samples: IBM Receives Patent for Using Regular Expressions to Extract Information from Documents, Google Receives Patent for Highlighting of Search Results, and Microsoft Attempts to Patent Object Persistence. Read on for some predictably-negative commentary and—gasp!—a look inside some incredibly-advanced Google technology...

Phone funnies

Phone funnies 08/07/2004 10:40 PM
USA Today Aug 8 2004 3:02AM GMT

Right Wing Funnies

Right Wing Funnies 08/27/2004 03:18 PM
Like others, the Bush administration has sometimes demanded their opponents prove a negative. For example, when the administration claimed there…

Rumsfeld is Despicable, Send Him to the
Front Lines Immediately! "Rumsfeld Calls
Day Tragic, But 'Necessary' " We Have
Losers as Unelected Leaders. We are
Losing the War Against Terrorism BECAUSE
of Them

Rumsfeld is Despicable, Send Him to the
Front Lines Immediately! "Rumsfeld Calls
Day Tragic, But 'Necessary' " We Have
Losers as Unelected Leaders. We are
Losing the War Against Terrorism BECAUSE
of Them 11/03/2003 06:39 AM

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52957-2003Nov2.html
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Blogging Strategy Funnies

Blogging Strategy Funnies 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
I didn’t think I was coming to Sun to work on blogging and syndication, but it turns out the whole industry has woken up to the fact that There’s Something Happening Here, and so it’s burning quite a few of my cycles, and has also generated a couple of amusing (and instructive) anecdotes...

Two Funnies: BotBOFH and Joy of Tech

Two Funnies: BotBOFH and Joy of Tech 04/30/2004 02:48 PM

Dubya Photo Funnies

Dubya Photo Funnies 08/28/2004 01:39 PM
What happened was, Lauren was away during the Democratic Convention, and as a politics junkie, I wanted to watch some of it, so the kid (just turned five) ended up watching a couple of the big speeches with me. (All on webcast, our TV is a movie box, doesn’t get any channels). He’s full of questions so I tried to explain, and as a result the candidate is the only public figure in the world whose face he knows, when we’re somewhere that there’s a TV showing news he’s apt to pipe up “There’s John Kerry.” This is a little embarrassing, especially considering he’s a Canadian. This morning I was reading news and made some remark about George Bush and he asked “who’s he?” so I tried to explain the big picture around the election and I went looking for some Dubya pix to show him. So I went to the bio page at the official Bush re-election site, and clicked on “View George W. Bush Photo Gallery”... busted link, a peek inside the source reveals href="\News\PhotoAlbum.aspx"... if I were mean-spirited I’d suggest that something about either being Republican or using Windows makes you stupid, but seriously, have to wonder about an organization that claims it can run America not being clueful enough to use a link-checker. Back to our story... I went to Google and looked for pictures of George Bush. This turns out to be a bad idea; the top-ranked pictures are by and large, shall we say, not Republican-friendly. Wanted posters, deranged-monster morphs, things that have just got ta be PhotoShopped. “Why are you laughing, Daddy?” said the kid, and I couldn’t really explain. (PS: Lots of nice pictures of George over at the White House site if you want ’em).

1 o'clock poetry

1 o'clock poetry 02/13/2004 03:29 AM
Under the slugging monk
the waiter asks
"Have you lost your little world?"

The People's Poetry

The People's Poetry 05/27/2004 12:36 PM
What is the current state of American poetry? Hank Lazer: Perhaps, contrary to the laments, we are now living through a particularly rich time in American poetry—an era of radically democratized poetry...In its anarchic democratic disorganized decentralization, poetry culture has developed in a manner parallel to the computer: the decentralized PC has beaten the main-frame. No one can pretend to know what is out there, or what is next. Who are some of the most notable American poets active in the beginning of the 21st century?

Poetry bl0g

Poetry bl0g 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
Pete the Beat who has been blogging his poems in my back pages (um, comments) has started his own blog, Beat Way Down. Here's how one entry begins : The art of highballs and cocktails cannot reach Mars on Main......

Spam as Poetry

Spam as Poetry 06/03/2004 08:19 PM

Spam Poetry

Spam Poetry 07/27/2004 06:28 PM
Courtesy of The Register, this is a marvellous collection of spam poetry - little bits of spam emails that seem to have a deeper meaning.  My personal favourite is the lovely phrase "Translucent gibbon rucksack bonanza".

Poetry, Go, Kerry

Poetry, Go, Kerry 07/31/2004 07:13 PM
I love live sports (which is to say, ritualized conflict) and I love language, so how could I not love the political arena? Herewith some notes provoked by the just-ended and much-blogged Democratic National Convention...

Baseball Poetry

Baseball Poetry 08/02/2004 01:00 AM
The Night Game, by Robert Pinsky; Ba seball and Writing, by Marianne Moore; Baseball Canto, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; and more baseball poetry than you can shake a stick at.

The poetry wants to be free

The poetry wants to be free 02/01/2005 09:58 PM
U Penn's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing launches PennSound, an mp3 poetry library. Press release is here. Listen to sound files of single poems; read the manifesto ; browse the au thor index; check out the webcast archive; and more (from the related Ubuweb).

Apple: Poetry In Motion

Apple: Poetry In Motion 04/22/2004 12:01 PM
Compositing tour-de-force Motion introduced at NAB 2004. By Charlie White, Broadcast Newsroom (via MyAppleMenu)

More Secret Santa poetry...

More Secret Santa poetry... 11/13/2003 05:24 AM

Weblogger south, Weblogger north!
Come hear my tale of Christmas glee...
Which this year shall be much in rhyme
(I'm sorry and please bear with me...)

A mount so high it touches space;
Within: a massive darkened cave,
Wherein a sharp and pointy race
Of tiny elves has been enslaved...

And in the centre, Mrs Claus -
A tower of computer might
(And built for no apparent cause)
Stands passive in the candlelight.

Beside her there's a silhouette
A disconnected robot form
Who waits each year for holidays
The chance to serve and be reborn.

But then, what's this? The Yule alarm!?
A klaxxon sounds throughout the lair
And with a twitch, the robot's arm
Thrusts holly fistfuls in the air!

He stands, a monster, next the flames
That every year before hath burned.
And lo! His robot voice proclaims
That SECRET SANTA HAS RETURNED!

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Slam poetry for CC remix

Slam poetry for CC remix 07/23/2004 04:46 AM
Wayne Mercier is a Vancouver slam poet who has just released his first book of poetry published, and along with it, a CD of him reading his work. He's made the entire audio of the CD available for downloand and remix under a Creative Commons license.

I'm really excited about this, not just because it's a way of getting my stuff out into the world, but because - to my knowledge - this is the first time this has been done in Canadian poetry. Coach House Press releases electronic editions of their author's work but retains copyright. Also the fact that this is audio, and thus open to extensive remixing and incorporation into larger, multimedia projects, is very cool.

Link (Thanks, Wayne!)

"poetry can no longer be taught"

"poetry can no longer be taught" 05/21/2004 12:54 AM

Captchas as random poetry

Captchas as random poetry 11/10/2003 11:24 PM
Patrick Swieskowski has written a scraper that sucks in four random captcha words from AOL Instant Messenger's sign-up screen and arranges them as serindipitous, random poetry. Link (Thanks, Patrick!)

Full-Frontal Poetry

Full-Frontal Poetry 07/23/2004 11:38 AM
"Hawaiian princess," begins the poem Ode to Mika, a rewrite of a review from the Unveiled Philidelphia strip club newspaper. "You have tight,/Shapely buns."

google ad gibberish poetry

google ad gibberish poetry 03/06/2004 01:57 AM
hemmorhoids buy a bidet
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